Sports Briefly

Posted: February 24, 2011 - 10:52am

PASADENA, Calif.

Caltech ended its 310-game conference losing streak in men’s basketball Tuesday night, beating Occidental College 46-45 in its season finale.

Ryan Elmquist hit the go-ahead free throw with 3 seconds left for the Division III Beavers, who had lost every Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game they had played since Jan. 23, 1985.

JUPITER, Fla.

Adam Wainwright, a 20-game winner for the Cardinals a year ago and the runner-up for the NL Cy Young Award, was sent back to St. Louis on Wednesday for tests on his injured right elbow amid concern that he could be sidelined for the season.

General manager John Mozeliak said “things do not look encouraging” for the right-hander, who injured his elbow while throwing batting practice Monday.

Mozeliak stopped short of saying Wainwright would need season-ending Tommy John surgery.

“I don’t want to speculate, but obviously ligament damage, that’s usually what it results in,” he said.

LONDON

The IOC is asking the head of the Vancouver Olympics for more details on his claims of a deal with Russia during the bidding for the 2010 Winter Games.

John Furlong, who led Vancouver’s winning bid and the 2010 organizing committee, says in a new book that a deal with Moscow’s mayor may have been instrumental in swinging votes in Canada’s favor.

The disclosure in Furlong’s memoirs raises the specter of possible violations of International Olympic Committee ethics and bidding rules.

“There is no investigation by the ethics commission at the present time,” International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “However, having now read the book, we have written to John Furlong to ask him if he can give us more specifics on the claims made.”